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The Universe Isn't As Scary As I Thought It Was, And I Guess I'm Okay With That

by American Haiku

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1.
I walked to the edge And all I saw was a million miles beneath my head. I took a step Scraping along the sky, my dreams were all dead. All roads point towards home That's what it does, when I was little Or so I've been told. I walked to the edge And fear painted my thoughts the brightest bright red I turned and left But I couldn't remember all the things I thought I had said. Sometimes it's weird to think about How were all made of the same stuff As the stars in the sky Everyone you ever loved and everything around you Everything you've ever seen It's all just chemical symmetry Or stardust shapes in between Coming around common ground I had a blue haired, blue girlfriend, yeah. She had big dreams and big plans yeah And they don't never slow down not for anyone We'll take lay lines all across the world, yeah. When everything you love turns away Turns to grey When everything you knew slipped away We're bringing the dream back to life.
2.
I said I will take time, it will make things get clearer when I see her. Inverted cross looks real nice, sticking out through spring ice. I see a tree made of lights, even the devil says "That shit looks tight". There hiding and we're sorry, I thought this was string theory. The message is a warning, calling out for a better story. Five pointed star, you are true. Space is made of you. With both hands clasped so tight, spinning out like white light in to black night. The true names of wind and rain are lost to far to explain And my hand expand, growing trees from cold land. Inverted cross looks way tight spinning across black sky, And the stars all alight. Even the devil says, "It's gonna be fine."
3.
Lost in the clouds Safe and sound Please, plane, bring me back home To the place that I came here from I lost the meaning of life I can't seem to see it from this high! I lost the will to keep the fear Replace the star stuff that keeps me clear. I will try one more time Making lines and taking pills on high. I found my home in the clouds, It's weird that you can see it from the ground. I lost the will to keep the fear. Maybe it's you that made me wanna stay We have to incorporate leylines in brilliant shades To all our maps, replace the shapes Bring me home hallelujah! Laying in wait for an impossible possibly I don't dare to open my eyes and to peek At brand new maps of places that I've been, At old dreams dying again and again. So I cry and I call true name to the stars, But again I am lost in heavens spiral arc I know for a fact the devil ain't true. I don't care about space, or satan. All I cared about was you.
4.
Light as a feather, stiff as a board. Light from far away reached me today. But I'm not the same, the sky is still grey I don't know where I'm from but I know where I belong. The space we take is full on erasing our unsuspecting hands. The fourth demention is full of unfolding I never would have guessed. It moves my hands, spelling out names of our ghost's dark blue flames. The old Chiefs feather spins. "Will reclaim promised land."
5.
Am I the only one you told about the pages that you folded the edge? I reread them again. Is there time to go outside? I just wanna see the sky one more time. Chemical lines on high. Because it's in your head, and it's in mine too. Because this dust does not make sense, the ghost is painted blue. The white light is nice, living in digital ice crystal caves They took me away. As I unfold this page, the way it was arranged was unclear. Released into the air. "You are the mittens on my hands, keeping me warm, but it's hard to write. Like a refrain, it sings don't speak." Am I even making sense? How should I know what happens in my brain, What makes me this way? Do we have time to go outside? Cause when you think about it, we probably should have died. So remember next time, keep it in mind! Because it's in my head, and it's in yours to. Blue ghost don't take offense, He's got it come too. It's been spitting cosmic speak for about a week on end. My radios gone dead. So I fold up this page. Maybe I was just too afraid of what it could say. "You are the wind and the scent of leaves, keeping me up on summer nights."
6.
i am cold, i've grown older than the forms of words casting off like ample nets to pull me underneath the earth the darkness swims across my vision, tugs me back into unfair, untrue outer space is my true place, glowing from the haze. time, it twists in an odd fashion, flowing through me now and i see exits and all my friends are growing scary wow well my mistake, ill make it great and full of light and hold our weight but i'm still cold and getting old seems boring now... the science we wait for is never gonna happen at this speed, on this earth and thats why were mapping through layers of lazers my mind has set a trap and we hope that we wake up 2067 burning lines trailing from behind, unimportant now. fucked up fate, you will erase us behind the clouds id like to hope but i think its true that i probably only remember you in a halfway way, that makes you way more real somehow. imm still cold but ive gotten oh so used to it now. flames in palms, my calm is gone, yeah its over wow unafraid of what you'd say, that i look dead or i'm made of clay but what if i said maybe im not just in the way im in space, and its big.
7.
we don't mind that no one cares. salty air takes me back there, you're breathing it out of your nose. i do not care, you can not hear, probably talking in codes unknown but its not like things are clear i just everything at once and everything that makes up me in the deafening silence in the stratosphere where the oxygen is clear, i evaluate my future salty air takes me back there and i see everything at once but my eyes just close, i do not care as i am swallowed by the supernova.
8.
Dust 04:06
thanks for giving up on me, thanks for turning out the light and also thanks for taking me along for the ride. i'm close enough now i can find my way home this is fine, i just don't wanna have to look you dead in the eyes. i started to feel all alone in my head and i knew the plans i had made would never come true did you take off the ring? are you wearing it now? all my friends keep trying to talk me down but ive given up, and in im scared and im all alone but i know now ive given up, and in i dont know whats going on but i know now ive given up thanks for bringing me up before you et me go and thanks for being the only love that ill ever know thanks for breaking my heart, thanks for letting it slide. thanks for fucking nothing now dont forget to write. like space is big and means nothing did it mean anything when you whispered ay night, "i love you."?
9.
i say a seance and taking time almost enough to keep me alive without the swell of the breaking waves i lost everything i knew today i woke with snow covering my face i could see light thruogh the fractions of space between the smallest gaps in the biggest flakes reminds me of the night sky through a chemical haze and i turned around my heard, and i heard a big sound and the sky opened up, and it spun all around leaking white light from my bones and the size of everything started to change. i gave the starts new names, i said a seance and breaking time just enough to ease my mind before the start of another day somethimes you need it just to stay awake this might just break casting spells sounding more like a fucking wish some times it sounds like this: said i will take time, it will make... light as a feather, stiff as a board... you got it all wrong... the dream inside my head i had to keep alive im breaking down again but at least i can say i tried the dream is dead again. dont care at all i am dead again. i dont wonder why.

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The album that fate itself couldn't destroy.

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released August 29, 2015

recorded and mixed meticulously by Todd Wilcox at Halogen Sound Studios, mastered by Kim Rosen at Knack Mastering.
On this recording, American Haiku is:
Rio Juniper Wolf- vocals, guitar, keys
Joe Linden- drums
Siena Friend- bass
Guest vocals on Corporeal Patronus by Madison "Medicine Man" Marquer
Album Art Provided By Allison Sheldon
Special thanks to John from Tubular Amps for lending us some gear!

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